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- Find all of these words
Douglas harbourFind pages containing both words. You can also write Douglas AND harbour.
- Find an exact phrase
"Peel Castle"Use quotation marks to find these words together, in this order, in the page’s OCR reading order.
- Find either word
Douglas OR PeelFind pages mentioning Douglas, Peel, or both. You can also use Douglas | Peel.
- Leave out a word
harbour -railwayFind pages mentioning harbour, but leave out any that mention railway. Put a minus sign directly before the word to exclude it.
- Leave out a phrase
Douglas -"railway station"Find pages mentioning Douglas, but leave out any containing the phrase “railway station”.
- Combine alternatives
(Douglas OR Peel) harbourFind pages mentioning harbour and at least one of Douglas or Peel. Brackets keep the alternatives together.
- Find different word endings
harbour*The asterisk stands for any ending, so this also finds words such as harbours and harbourmaster.
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Write AND and OR in capital letters. When you combine them, AND is applied first; use brackets to make your meaning clear.
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Include similar-sounding wordsEarystaneTick Include similar-sounding words to also find spellings that sound alike. For example, Earystane can find Erystain and Arystine. This works with ordinary words in the main box and Advanced Search. With relevance sorting, exact spellings appear first; quoted phrases, asterisk searches and excluded words keep their literal spelling.
